Describe Your Relationship With Your Parents

My next challenge: describe my relationship with my parents. My answer: awesome! Of course that is not a "blog" answer that is a one word answer but, for me it works.

Growing up I always felt MUCH closer to my mom than my dad. I think there were a lot of reasons for this. He was gone a lot when I was younger. He was in the Army and had a lot of temporary duty assignments away from home. I remember it seemed like he missed a lot of my birthdays b/c apparently April is a good time for TDY. But I never remember it bothering me that much. I think that is because I WAS so close with my mom. We just had a lot more in common too. She was a bookworm and though she passed that on to all of us kids, I think it is safe to say I got it the most! My brother and sister (along with my  Dad) loved being outdoors and playing more physical kinds of games. I liked to sit inside (often with my mom) reading a book. I also always imagined that because I was the only child to inherit her red hair this made us somehow very close. :)

As I have gotten older, my mom and I have gotten even closer I think. As an adult I have lived with my parents several different times and I miss our laughing together and talking about books and TV shows and movies. We can sit and just hang out and talk for hours. I am so glad my Mom is one of my best friends.

With Dad it is different, but now that I have gotten older I do not feel apart from him simply because we are different. I still don't like the things he likes, and mostly he doesn't like the things I like either. But that doesn't really matter. I always feel like something is just missing if I go to long without just being where my Daddy is. I think I am most comfortable being myself and just in general when I am with him. Or with both of them I guess. My Dad takes care of me so much. It is amazing. He just fixes my stuff and shows me what I need to do and teaches me the things I don't know how to do. I think that is maybe the scariest part of being a single person. I mean in a partnership you have 2 people with their own strengths and talents. When you are single if you can't do it yourself, you are out of luck. But not me. I have my Dad. He makes it okay for me to be who I want to be and to be totally comfortable that so far that has turned out to be a single person. That means more to me than I can ever really explain.

Both of my parents are amazing both as parents and just as people. I feel so blessed to have them. Neither of them is in good health, and while that is scary I love that my family does not let that dictate our lives. It just makes us ever and always more aware of how special every moment we have together really is.